Over the last few years, there has been a surge in nonprofit groups – thanks to federal grants — that train and pair dogs ...
Tommy the Labrador retriever, a service dog from Dogs Inc, went outside his training to alert his owner to life-threatening medical episode Lexi VanOsdol/Dogs Inc. After years of waiting, Hank Ford, a ...
Training a service dog doesn’t just change the life of another veteran; it may help heal the trainer, too. A new study finds that volunteering with dogs could slow biological aging in female veterans ...
Semper Fi Service Dogs has paired more than 100 animals rescued from shelters with Palm Beach County veterans coping with ...
Freedom Dogs gives veterans and active military members a lifeline through service animals. But a delay in federal funding ...
WASHINGTON — KVUE met Navy veteran Bob Freeze on a rainy day at the Vietnam War Memorial in Washington, D.C., earlier this year. He and other veterans had been flown from their Texas homes to the ...
Khrista Daciw says she's put years into training the service dog that helps her deal with her diabetes, yet she isn't eligible for a benefit that people in the Ontario Disability Support Program can ...
I'm at a loss, I don't know what else to do, thought Becca Stephens, 40, when she realized her PTSD symptoms were at an all-time high. The mood swings are getting out of hand, and my isolation is ...
SAN JOSE, Calif. (KGO) -- Operation Freedom Paws in San Martin is an organization that changes two lives in one team. Veterans get to train their own service dogs. Ramon Reyes is a lead mentor trainer ...
Laurie Carlson is the community outreach coordinator for Can Do Canines, an organization that trains and places service dogs with people living with disabilities, free of charge. Can Do Canines also ...
An East Texas college professor is working to improve the lives of veterans in the state thanks to funding from the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. Dr. Adam McGuire, who is an associate professor ...
Israel’s longest war is leaving a trail of traumatized soldiers in its wake. Psychologists, soldiers and their families say there are a growing number of fighters suffering from mental illness ...